A Path to Combinatorics for Undergraduates: Counting

A Path to Combinatorics for Undergraduates: Counting Strategies
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This unique approach to combinatorics is centered around unconventional, essay-type combinatorial examples, followed by a number of carefully selected, challenging problems and extensive discussions of their solutions. TopicsÂ encompass permutations and combinations, binomial coefficients and their applications, bijections, inclusions and exclusions, and generating functions.Â Each chapter features fully-worked problems,Â including many from Olympiads and other competitions, as well asÂ a number of problemsÂ original to the authors;Â at theÂ end of each chapter are further exercisesÂ to reinforce understanding,Â encourage creativity, and buildÂ a repertory of problem-solving techniques.Â Â The authors' previous text, "102 Combinatorial Problems," makes a fine companion volume to the present work, which isÂ ideal for Olympiad participants and coaches, advanced high school students, undergraduates, and college instructors.Â The book's unusual problems and examples willÂ interest seasoned mathematicians as well. Â "A Path to Combinatorics for Undergraduates" is a lively introduction not only to combinatorics, but to mathematical ingenuity, rigor, and the joy of solving puzzles.
Country USA
Brand Birkhäuser
Manufacturer Birkhäuser
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2003-11-11
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780817642884

A Path to Combinatorics for Undergraduates: Counting Strategies